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The tyranny of the clock

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Promoting a clock-free paradigm that fits everything learned about programming since Turing.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 10
              October 2012
              101 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/2347736
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